Ladies Who Launch
October 2 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Free
Free “Female Founders are the Future” T Shirt for all attendees while supplies last!
Join us at this annual event to celebrate female founders! We will be hosting a panel discussion around the unique experiences of women in leadership and business founding roles. Founders, co-founders and leaders within organizations alongside those who support local businesses have offered great advice and stories to audiences in past years. Bring your questions for our dynamic group of women in entrepreneurship to this year’s event.
This event takes place at The Corner, a chic event space located at 941 Main Campus Dr, across the street from Partners I. Parking is free in the Partners I lot and Oval West Deck after 5pm, both of which are located right next to the corner.
Ruka Osoba – Ruka is the startup founder of Pathstitch, an education technology platform that connects data to improve teacher development, satisfaction, and support. The Pathstitch team is made up of former educators with a deep commitment to improving education. Her expertise is in content marketing strategy, market research, and customer experience (CX) marketing. She’s originally from the DC area, having graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in political science, but has lived in Raleigh for the last 12 years with her dog, Jackson. On any given day, you can find her out on a run, listening to a podcast, writing a script, or on campus as a graduate student of the Education Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship program at the University of North Carolina.
Emily Foster – Emily is the owner and founder of Alpacasews, a stuffed animal brand based in Raleigh, North Carolina. She got her degree in meteorology from NC State University in 2021, but started Alpacasews in her final semester after she found her love for product design and creative marketing. After gaining over 400,000 followers, Emily has grown her business to sell via e-commerce, wholesale and in person events.
Isabella Dearr – Isabella is a 2023 graduate of NC State University, where she majored in Entrepreneurship and minored in Art Entrepreneurship. In 2020, Isabella founded Your Vision Customs which is an art business focused on creating hand painted footwear for local businesses. Isabella currently is the Event Coordinator at Raleigh Founded, a entrepreneurial focused coworking space in Raleigh, while also expanding her artistic work into the mural space.
Jenn Summe – Jenn is the driving force behind Primordial and the host of GrepBeat’s In the Soup podcast. With a decade of experience in the Triangle tech startup scene, she brings a wealth of operational knowledge in business development, marketing, and customer experience to her investments, helping to nurture 12-15 new NC-based early-stage tech startups each year. Jenn holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.
